Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Knight and Castles Unit, Museums

BOOKS
Castle by David Macauley

Castle at War by Andrew Langley
Castles by Philip Steele
Knights and Castles by Avery Hart and Paul Manatell
A Medieval Castle by Fiona MacDonald and Mark Bergin
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle by Richard Platt
What Were Castles For? by Phil Roxbee Cox
The World of the Medieval Knight by Christopher Gravett

The BayeuxTapestry by Wolfgang Grape. Te Neues Pub Co, 1994.
Cathedral by David Macaulay. Houghton Mifflin, 1973
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. Harperperennial Library, 1995 Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor. Harperperennial Library, 1994.
Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society by Bridget Ann Henisch. Pennsylvainia State University Press, 1986.
Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony by Madeleine Pelner Cosman. George Brazillier, 1978.
Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture, Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, David Klausner, eds. St. Martins, 1991.
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies. Harperperennial Library, 1991.
Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993


Museums
Knight Search Results: Art Institute of Chicago
Castles Search Results: Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Art
Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester MA
The Higgins Armory Museum, with 5,000 objects on 4 floors, is the only institution in the Northeast dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of arms and armor. A visit to the Higgins will spark your imagination with the fact behind the fairytale!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


Videos
Castle from Dorset Video
(based on the book by David Macaulay)
Knights and Armor from the History Channel
Times Medieval
from Discovery Communications (The Discovery Channel)

CD-ROMs
Castle Explorer from DK Multimedia
Destination: Castle from Edmark
Nikolai's Knights from H+a
Une fete medievale/A Medieval Celebration from Micro-Intel

The Internet
http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/index.html
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/
Film: Harry Potter (2001) filmed at
Castle: Alnwick
found at
http://www.castles-of-britain.com/

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Medieval Europe Homepage
http://eawc.evansville.edu/mepage.htm
This site covers ancient near eastern history to the middle ages. It includes a thorough chronology of major events of medieval times and allows users to look into what was happening across cultures during various points in history.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The place to go for primary source material related to the middle ages.

The Labyrinth Compendium of Medieval Resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
Based at Georgetown University this site provides links to many medieval resources available on the Internet.

The Online Medieval and Classical Literature Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
This site provides links to texts which are considered major literary works of the middle ages.

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/index.html
Articles and links on the Middle Ages.

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